Friday, April 8, 2016
Social Media from an Old Fellow's Point of View
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I am not really good at writing nor am I active online but this old man will do his best. Since this has to relate to social media and I have very limited experience, may I restate what I said in the past? Had my daughter not open a Facebook account for me, I probably will not be on any social media and not miss it. I look at it once in a while to see what people post and move on, The only other experience I have is with Skype because my wife is from the Philippines and before I retired and moved there, Skype was our way of communicating. Even when I moved to the Philippines, I always called to talk to my family back here. I just feel that face to face communication is the best way to go; body language, facial expressions etc.
I am open to new things, don't get me wrong. I have tried but it is too complicated for me. I am not sure whether it is just because of old age or because of the fact that these changes in technology normally happen too fast I can't keep up.
I have noticed that there's also a website that allows you to post your resume and connect with other professionals and it can be seen by everybody or just the employers depending on what you choose. I understand the advantage of this to employers, not wasting time and hire fast but also know that had I just read an online resume and based my screening on how perfect the resume is, I would not have hired very excellent employees.
Another factor I am not active online is because of the hacking and data breach going on even big companies with state of the art resources get compromised. Old people are always victimized by scams on the internet and social media and I feel like the less I post, the less likely they would know anything about me.
I am not against social media as a whole but society must not let it rule our forms of communications and our lives
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